Abstract
The future autonomous ships will be operating in an environment where different autonomous and nonautonomous vessels with different characteristics exist. These vessels are owned by different parties and each uses its owned unique approaches for guidance and navigation. The Collaborative Autonomous Shipping Experiment(CASE) aims at emulating such an environment and also stimulating the move of automatic ship control algorithms towards practice by bringing together different institutes researching on autonomous vessels under an umbrella to experiment with collective sailing in inland waterways. In this paper, the experiments of CASE 2020 are explained, the characteristics of different participating vessels are discussed and some of the control and perception algorithms that are planned to be used at CASE 2020 are presented. CASE 2020 will be held in parallel to iSCSS 2020 at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.
Highlights
Autonomous shipping has been extensively investigated by the academic and industrial communities due to several advantages that it introduces
Collaborative Autonomous Shipping Experiment (CASE) aims at emulating the inland shipping environment of future by gathering different institutes researching on autonomous vessels under an umbrella to experiment collective sailing in inland waterways
A moving vessel is sailing in front of an autonomous vessel and the autonomous vessel should bypass it by updating its trajectory
Summary
Autonomous shipping has been extensively investigated by the academic and industrial communities due to several advantages that it introduces. The manned vessels are navigated by captains having different maneuvering behaviors and autonomous vessels are going to function with different control and perception algorithms, but all have to respect the national and international maritime laws This difference in maneuvering behavior and control software makes the problem of safe autonomous shipping challenging as it must be guaranteed that these different systems and operators should coordinate with each other to avoid collision and any other accidents. In this challenge, an autonomous vessel should update its trajectory to avoid collision with a non-moving vessel on its way. Two autonomous vessels from different parties that are moving in opposite directions should bypass each other without colliding The difference between this challenge and Challenge III is that the autonomous vessels will be having heads-on initial position, i.e., their are in each other’s way.
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